Matija Mrazović

Matija Mrazović

Matija Mrazović (born February 24, 1824 in Visoko near Križevci , † June 13, 1896 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian lawyer and politician .

Life

Matija Mrazović was born on February 24, 1824 as the son of Ladislav and Helena Mrazović (nee Ožegović Barlabaševačka) in the village of Visoko near Križevci. He comes from a south Slavic aristocratic family who had acquired the title of nobility in 1794 under Emperor Franz II . After elementary school in Kreutz and later in Bellovár (a district of Varaždin ), he attended grammar school in Varaždin and later in Agram . He then studied law at the University of Agram in 1845/46 and subsequently became a lawyer at the banal table and in 1848, when the banu dignity was reorganized, an unpaid trainee .

With the beginning of the revolution in 1848/49 , when the Croatian units on the imperial side crossed the Drava , Mrazović was sent to the war commission in Varaždin, where he stayed until February 1849 and passed the bar exam. At the War Commission he acted under President Zigrović. Around this time, Vice-Ban Zidarić was sent to Osijek as banal commissioner ; this appointed Mrazović as his secretary. However, Mrazović only held this position until the March constitution was issued in early March 1849. After that he was back on the banal table in Zagreb, before he left civil service soon afterwards in June 1850 and embarked on a career as a lawyer . On August 20, 1849, his son Ladislav (1849–1881), who would later become a writer and publicist, and on September 13, 1853, his daughter Stanka (1853–1934), called Nonica , who later joined the bank director Franjo “Frane” Šverljuga ( 1844–1921) was married to the world. With their mother, Barbara Mrazović (nee Dutković; 1822–1905), he had been married for some time.

Parallel to his work as a lawyer, Mrazović also worked as a writer and journalist. Shortly after completing his studies, he published his first essays in South Slavic journals such as Národne Noviny , Slovansky Jih and Jihoslovanska Noviny . In 1851, on the advice of his former mentor Bogoslav Šulek, he published a legal journal entitled Pravnik , in which he explained the new Austrian laws, which at that time appeared in fairly rapid succession and in large numbers . In 1860 he was involved in the establishment of the newspaper Pozor ( German : Attention ). For reasons of prohibition, the newspaper appeared in Vienna as Novi Pozor (German: New Attention ), in Sisak as Zatočnik (German: The Fighter ) and Branik (German: The Defender ), and from 1871 to 1941 in Zagreb as Obzor (German: Rundschau ). In this, in which his son also published in later years, he published a number of historical-political and legal articles.

With the establishment of the state parliament through the so-called February patent , he belonged to the Sabor from 1861 as a member of a district of the Križevci County and was one of the founders of the Narodna stranka (German: People's Party ) in the same year . He became one of its most influential party leaders. Mrazović was able to avert a fragmentation of the People's Party aimed at by the Hungarian half of the empire. He also founded his own party gazette and obtained permission from the Croatian court chancellery to publish an independent political body in the Croatian language. After his October diploma the year before, he was already active in the county counseling and was already considered one of the most influential men in his homeland at that time. From 1869, shortly after he took office, he was a staunch opponent of Ban Levin Rauch . He accused him of having obtained material advantages by abusing his office (especially in the reclamation work in Lonjsko polje ). Rauch was deposed in early January 1871. As a member of the state parliament, Mrazović was a member of the Regnikolar deputation and was also involved in the revision of the settlement with the Hungarian half of the empire in 1873.

Between 1879 and 1881 Mrazović acted as mayor of Zagreb, where he pulled through a broad municipal program. In 1881, now 57 years old, he retired from political life due to health problems. In the same year, his son , who had been suffering from tuberculosis for years, died at the age of 32. Even after the end of his political career, Mrazović remained active in the Obzor newspaper . On June 13, 1896, Mrazović died in Zagreb at the age of 72 and was buried in the Mirogoj Cemetery , the central cemetery of Zagreb, in a grave on the side of his son. Both his wife and daughter and her family were later buried in the same grave.

Works (selection)

• 1851: Pravnik
• Narodna stranka party bulletin
• Article in the journal Národne Noviny
• Article in the journal Slovansky Jih
• Article in the journal Jihoslovanska Noviny
• Article in the Obzor newspaper

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Mrazović, M. . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, p. 301 ( digitized version ).
• Slavko Batušić :  Mrazović, Matija. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 399.
• NARODNA ENCIKLOPEDIJA SRPSKO - HRVATSKO - SLOVENACKA, Volume 2, p. 1053

Web links

• Ladislav Mrazović in ARHiNET (Croatian)
• The Mrazović, Šverljuga and Hottowy families in ARHiNET (Croatian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Grave of Ladislav Mrazovic at the Mirogoj Cemetery , accessed on September 10, 2019

predecessor	Office	successor
Stanko Andrijević	Mayor of Zagreb 1879–1881	Josip Hoffman